South Dakota Turkey Hunting
Directory of 48 South Dakota Turkey hunting lodges, guides and outfitters in South Dakota.
We offer a limited number of archery turkey hunts from the middle of April until the middle of May. We have plenty of Tom's ranging in weight from 22 lbs to 28 lbs, with beards as long as 12 inches.
Learn more about Antler Ridge Lodge
We offer fully and semi guided Merriam turkey hunts. Hunters get a double tag which means you can shoot two Toms. Hunters also have the option of hunting with a bow or a gun. Most of our hunts are out of ground blinds, however, there may be a quick set up in brush or behind a tree.
Learn more about Bad River Bucks and Birds
South Dakota offers a spring and fall turkey hunting season to both residents and nonresidents. The spring season application process opens in mid January with a late February deadline. The tradition start for the season is the second Saturday in April, running through the third Sunday in May.
Learn more about Bobs South Dakota Hunting Service
Here at Browns Hunting Ranch, we hunt the Merriam turkey. The Moreau River is home to large flocks of turkey, where we hunt both river bottoms and field edges. It’s not uncommon to see flocks of dozens of birds. We offer fully-guided or semi-guided hunts.
Learn more about Brown's Hunting Ranch
Every year as spring returns, brings a heart racing sound of an old gobbler, strutting, and gobbling. When you hunt with us, you could see 25 or more different strutting gobblers in one day. You will be hunting over 50,000 plus acres of private and leased ground, hunting only the best creek bottoms and fields with an unbelievable number of turkeys.
Learn more about C & D Outfitters
South Dakota has developed itself as the premiere pheasant hunting destination. However, South Dakota also contains an abundance of other birds to harvest including turkeys and a variety of breeds of waterfowl. While Cimpl Made Hunts specializes in guided pheasant hunting, we are also happy to accommodate you in your pursuit of other birds. If you are interested in either a guided turkey hunt or a guided waterfowl hunt, please CONTACT US.
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Semi-Guided Packages: 3 Day $1200.00 per gun; 5 Day $1650.00 per gun; 7 Day $2250.00 per gun.
Learn more about Coteau des Prairie Outdoors
Dakota Ranch Outfitters offers big game hunting for mule deer, whitetail, antelope and turkey. We also offer upland game birds, which include pheasant and sharptail grouse. South Dakota big game rifle licenses are obtained by a lottery drawing system, with Archery Tags Guaranteed.
Learn more about Dakota Ranch Outfitters
Archery deer hunts are available as well as wild turkey, grouse, pheasant, coyote, and prairie dog. These can be in combination with the rifle deer hunt or separate.
Learn more about Dakota Safari Outfitters
Thank you for your interest in South Dakota turkey hunting at Deadshot Outfitters. In addition, we also specialize in pheasant hunts. Spring is a special time in South Dakota hearing the gobbles from the toms to hearing the crows from the rooster pheasants. Our goals are to make sure that our clients have an amazing experience, have a great hunt and hopefully create lasting friendships.
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Every year our Spring archery turkey hunts get more popular. Double K is THE place to hunt Merriam's in South Dakota, if not the whole U.S. We own and have access to prime turkey hunting spots across 3 counties, giving you the choice of numerous locations and thousands of birds. We also know the birds well and can put you on the roost in the morning & evening, and in their path during the day.
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With the turkey population on our ranches coming in at over two thousand five hundred birds last fall, turkey hunting at Firesteel Creek Lodge is nothing short of amazing. We hunt turkeys several ways on our ranch, from heart pounding calling to the always effective spot and stock technique.
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We consider the Prairie Chicken a "trophy" bird. It can be hunted in only three states, so when you bag a "chicken," you become one of the few to do so in modern times. Sharptail Grouse, Hungarian Partridge, Bobwhite Quail, Mourning Dove, and Merriam Wild Turkey round out the upland birds available to our guests. Our waterfowl hunting is superb with Canada Geese and Mallards our most abundant fowl.
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The Black Hills hunt is done on National Forest or small private ranches. Lodging is usually is a local motel in Hill City SD. We have a variety of terrain that we can match to the hunter desires.
The Prairie hunt take place on a 11,000 acre ranch North of Wall SD on the break of the Cheyenne river system.
Learn more about G-man Outdoor Adventure
The Garnos Ranch provides all home cooked meals with this package. Experienced guides and trained dogs. Bird processing (cleaning and freezing). Transportation provided for guided hunting. Field lunch prepared and served. Lodges 20 to 24 hunters. All taxes included.
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Few outdoor experiences match the exhilaration and challenge of a traditional spring gobbler hunt. The sound of a gobbler’s excited calling as he steadily approaches, the harmonic puffing and feather snapping of an unseen bird and the first sight of the gobbler in full strutting display as he comes into view are unforgettable.
Learn more about High Plains Game Ranch
Spring Merriam Turkey Hunting in the beautiful pristine Black Hills of South Dakota. Fully guided or semi-guided. True Merriam hunts No Hybrids Here! See Ray Eye and Jason Gilbertson of Winchester Turkey Revolution bag trophy Merriam’s on Versus TV with the legendary High Prairie Lodge & Outfitters. Outfitter Dave Ciani has been a professional turkey hunting guide for over 20 years. Dave has live trapped and transplanted turkey’s, worked as a Special Game Protector in law enforcement, taught adult education classes on calling, turkey hunting, the life cycle of turkey’s and taught elementary school children the ethics and life cycle, calling and hunting of turkeys. Dave puts the utmost importance on the ethics of hunting and is as much a teacher as he is a hunting guide.
Learn more about High Prairie Lodge & Outfitters
Big game hunts (elk,deer,antelope,bison) are available with a limited number of guaranteed tags. Spring turkey hunts can include up to five tags per hunt. Also available are pheasant hunts,grouse hunts,coyote hunts, and prairie dog shoots.
Learn more about Kirwan Guide Service
Spring or Fall Turkey Hunting. Book a DIY Turkey Hunt with Majestic Today.
Learn more about Majestic Ranch & Hunting Service
The ranch is located in Western South Dakota with very good habitat for turkeys. Cedar Canyon is a natural wooded canyon that runs through the ranch and is home to a large number of Merriam turkeys. During the winter, much of the population can be seen gleaning grain from the livestock feed bunks, but in the spring of the year, they scatter into the canyon. Past hunters have enjoyed the challenge of calling them in and have harvested some very nice birds
Learn more about Michelson Ranch
Turkey hunts are offered in three states including South Dakota, Kansas, and Nebraska. The beauty of being able to hunt these three states is the flexibility of being able to hunt three seasons from late March untill the end of May as well as being able to hunt three of the four main sub-species of turkeys.
Learn more about Miller Matthews Outfitters
Missouri River Outdoors offers some of the best Merriam turkey hunting there is. South Dakota is one of the few states that offers the perfect habitat combination – thick vegetation, huge cottonwood trees and the riverbanks of the Missouri River – where Merriams thrive. And in recent years these big gobblers have been in abundance across the lowlands near the Missouri River. Contact Missouri River Outdoors today to book your turkey hunt of a lifetime.
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Oak Creek Outfitters has thousands of acres and thousands of trophy Merriam turkeys for you to hunt. If one bird is not enough, you have the option to get more tags for state land (and you can get tribal tags to hunt more birds as well). The archery season opens in April and ends in May. The shotgun season opens in April and ends in May. So choose your weapon, tags, and dates and we will provide the decoys and calling for you. If you have plenty of experience, you are sure welcome to do your own calling.
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Pahapesto Guiding Service is family owned and operated by Terry Maier. Located in Tripp County in South Central Dakota. The lodge is just a few miles northwest of Winner, the pheasant capital of the world. Tripp County is home to outstanding mule deer and white-tail bucks, along with antelope, turkey, pheasants, grouse, coyotes, and prairie dogs.
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Located near Presho SD. Offering day hunts for Pheasant, Goose, and Turkey. Call for inquiries.
Learn more about Perry River Ranch
Missouri River Ringnecks offers guided hunting services in and around Glenham, South Dakota. We will show you how to hunt pheasants, sharptail grouse, morning doves, and turkeys. Our prices include lodging and meals; our lodge can accommodate up to 16 hunters, and we offer the finest foods and beverages available.
Learn more about Pheasant Cove Outfitters
Prairie Highlands Outfitters main goal is to provide you with the best hunting experience possible. Our 3200 sq. ft. log lodge sleeps 10 and includes a wet bar, pool table and lounge. We also offer two log cabins with full kitchens and bathrooms for a more private stay. There is a natural hot spring just feet from the main lodge. We provide hunting packages for prairie dog, whitetail, mule deer, pronghorn, turkey, grouse, prairie chicken and coyote hunting. 2,000 private acres and access to over 1,000,000 acres of tribal land your sure to have a blast.
Learn more about Prairie Highlands Lodge
Each spring we have a very limited number of turkey tags available. Fully guided and scouted by the Prairie Sky Field Staff.
Learn more about Prairie Sky Guest and Game Ranch
Enjoy the wide open spaces of Western South Dakota as you pursue Mule Deer, Whitetail Deer, Pronghorn Antelope, or Merriam Turkeys on our private ranch. Our location along the Belle Fourche River, ample acreage to hunt, wildlife management efforts, and limited harvest ensure that you will have a great opportunity to harvest a mature buck. Much of this ranch has been in our family for over a century, and we know where the big bucks are!
Learn more about River View Lodge
Rocky Ridge Retreat provides the perfect habitat for turkeys and our exceptionally high turkey population draws anxious hunters each year. Turkey hunts are available in both the Spring and Fall.
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Rooster Tales has the unique opportunity of obtaining licenses for Whitetail Deer and Merriam Turkey hunts. How do we do this? We have an abundance of tribal land that borders our property and will be working with the Rosebud Sioux Tribe to offer licenses.
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Turkey hunting with Routier Outfitting is for the true Merriam's subspecies of Turkey. You can expect 1/2 inch spurs and 6-inch beards on average but the true trophy of these turkeys is the almost snow white tail feather tips. We use both blinds and run n gun methods of hunting. The blinds are set up near roosts and when running n gunning we are hunting known staging areas of the turkeys. We will be hunting pre-scouted river bottoms, pine tree covered hills and rolling prairie. Even though Merriam's Turkeys are said to have the weakest gobbles up all Turkey subspecies these birds have very little hunting pressure and are not call shy.
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Most guests who come in for one of our guided Merriam turkey hunts agree, that the Rosebud is some of the best turkey hunting around. The abundance of birds and their very vocal characteristics set these hunts apart from most others. These hunts will likely be quite different than what you are used to.
Learn more about South Dakota Expeditions
Without a doubt, turkey hunting in South Dakota is some of the best to be found in North America and we offer the best in South Dakota. With over twenty years experience guiding turkey hunters, I guarantee you action that few hunters have ever experienced. Whether you choose to hunt with gun or bow you will be assured of numerous sightings with multiple opportunities at longbeards.
Learn more about South Dakota Hunting Service
South Fork Hunting, featuring wild turkey hunts is located in western South Dakota. It includes many acres of natural habitat which creates the perfect roosting places for the white tipped Merriam turkey. Brad and his experienced guides will provide and/or assist you with ample opportunities to call in the gobbler worthy of your expectations. After a successful day in the field, kick back and enjoy a beverage of your choice in our lodge or outdoor bar while your home cooked meal is being prepared
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If you are looking for an extremely successful Merriam hunt and want to be in an area with true trophy-sized Toms, give us a call. We have harvested record book Toms over the past several years.
Learn more about Stukel's Birds & Bucks
Merriam Turkey Outfitter in South DakotaThe West River area of South Dakota is one of the few places in the country where you can chase large Merriam’s Turkeys. One of the benefits of hunting these amazing creatures in this area of the world is their wonderful taste brought about by the volume of agriculture in the region. Whether we are actively stalking a large group or calling in Toms off the roost to a blind, they are bold and receptive to the call, making for an exciting hunt and leaving you wanting more.
Learn more about Talon Outfitters
Bolton Ranch Outfitters is a true South Dakota working ranch that just happens to be situated in some of the most pristine hunting ground that you will ever see. The land that Bolton Ranch owns is perfect habitat for wild pheasants , sharptail grouse, deer, and turkey. High success rates and trophy game defines the hunting; top notch hospitality and hard work defines the service you will receive at Bolton Ranch . We know that you will come away from Bolton Ranch with memories to last a lifetime of stories to tell the grandchildren, trophy game to hang on the wall, and a cooler full of birds. Don't miss the opportunity to call us to book your hunt today.
Learn more about The Lodge at Bolton Ranch
Rolling hills, deep valleys and lots of timber make The Outback a premier sporting area for the beautiful Merriam Turkey. There are hundreds of the prestigious fowl that inhabit this area year round with many that show up for the breeding season. The Outback provides a perfect setting for the Archery Hunter who is almost guaranteed a tag when applying through South Dakota's Game Fish & Parks Department.
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We have gobblers waiting in every wooded drainage. These birds flock up in the winter to the tune of 300 birds. When spring comes these birds disperse and the gobbling begins! Your Turkey hunt includes: 3 day hunt, lodging and meals. We have a Spring and Fall season. Fall season Turkey hunting will be done outside of the deer season unless the deer hunters are the same ones doing the turkey hunting.
Learn more about The Outback SD
The Hat Creek Outpost is a working cattle ranch located between Hot Springs and Ardmore, South Dakota. The property has over 15 miles of creek bottom habitat. Hat Creek has developed a reputation over the years as one of the premier locales for trophy deer in South Dakota and is endorsed by Bass Pro Shop.
Learn more about The Signature Lodge by Cheyenne Ridge Outfitters
Two Rivers Outfitters has over 45,000 acres of private land that provides the perfect habitat for all types of wildlife. You will hunt with knowledgeable guides who have grown up hunting this land. The guides know the habits of the wildlife, ensuring you a successful hunt. All of our hunts are fully guided or semi-guided, depending on the type of hunt. Methods of hunting will depend upon the terrain and the physical condition of the hunter.
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Western Ranch Outfitters offers some of the best big game hunting in South Dakota for mule deer, whitetail, antelope and turkey. Book a hunt with WRO and let us show you what we are talking about.
Learn more about Western Ranch Outfitters
The ranch is located on the south side of the White River in Tripp and Lyman counties, approximately 25-30 miles of river frontage plus acres of river breaks above the White River/Missouri River and includes miles of native grass interspersed with cropland and food plots for wildlife to winter on. Yearly new Trees are planted to increase and thicken the shelter belts.
Learn more about White River Sportsman
We own or lease close to 40,000 acres in our fifth generation family ranch. If you are looking for a good time with friends and an experience to remember come with us! These services provide you with the most exclusive, private, and custom hunts available in the area, perfect for the ultimate retreat from the modern world and intrusions.
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